01Platform & Middleware
- JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
- Apache HTTPD, IHS, OHS, JBCS
- mod_jk, mod_proxy, proxy balancer, mod_cluster
- MySQL, Oracle 12c/19c, MSSQL, PostgreSQL 16
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Resilient platforms for production banking workloads.
I design, run and harden infrastructure across Kubernetes, Azure and Java middleware — from disaster-recovery topology and DevSecOps pipelines down to the thread pools that decide whether a release holds under load.
Kubernetes / OpenShift
Azure AZ-104 · AZ-500
Apache HTTPD & Tomcat
DR: on-prem ↔ Azure
13+
Years across infrastructure and middleware
11
Engineers led on a platform team
10+
Banking platform implementations
AZ-104 / 500
Azure administration and security certified
About
Middleware roots, platform scope
I started in application servers and performance engineering — JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat and Apache HTTPD — where a badly sized thread pool is the difference between a quiet release night and a war room. That grounding still shapes how I approach platforms: measure first, model the queue, then change one thing.
Today I lead infrastructure delivery for core banking implementations, covering Azure administration and migration, Kubernetes and OpenShift adoption, Jenkins-based DevSecOps pipelines with quality and vulnerability gates, and disaster recovery across on-premises and cloud estates. I have led an eleven-person platform team through implementations for banks across India and the Middle East.
The work I enjoy most sits where automation meets evidence: pipelines that fail for the right reasons, dashboards that answer a question, and rollouts that can be reversed in seconds.
Expertise
Four areas I own end to end
From the operating system up to the delivery pipeline.
02Cloud & Containers
- Azure IaaS, PaaS, Sentinel, Site Recovery
- Kubernetes and OpenShift in production
- Docker image build and hardening
- On-premises ↔ Azure disaster recovery
03Performance & Observability
- JMeter and ab load modelling
- Elasticsearch, Kibana, FluentD, Grafana
- AppDynamics, Instana, Dynatrace, Glowroot
- JVM heap and thread dump analysis
04DevSecOps & Delivery
- Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines
- SonarQube, Trivy, Dependency-Track gates
- Shell and PowerShell automation
- Release planning and DR drill execution
Writing
Notes from production
Longer pieces on the systems I work with day to day.
Canary Deployments in Kubernetes
Rolling updates tell you a pod is healthy, not that a release is good. This walks through progressive delivery on Kubernetes — replica-ratio canaries, ingress weighting, service-mesh traffic splitting and automated analysis with Argo Rollouts — plus the failure modes that catch teams out.
Read the articlePerformance Management in Apache HTTPD (Worker MPM)
How the worker MPM actually allocates processes and threads, how to size MaxRequestWorkers from measured throughput instead of guesswork, how to read the scoreboard, and how to align the web tier with the backend pool so a slow application never becomes a queue collapse.
Read the articleHow Tomcat Works: Architecture and Request Lifecycle
A walk down the Catalina stack — Server, Service, Connector, Engine, Host, Context, Wrapper — following a single HTTP request from the acceptor socket through the poller, the pipeline of valves, the classloader hierarchy and into your servlet, then back out.
Read the articleTrack record
Experience & education
Project Leader
i-exceed Technology Solutions
Oct 2019 – Present
- Led Appzillon banking framework implementations for IPPB, Bandhan, UCBL, Canara, Equitas, Bank Islam, BOA, Al-Mashraf, NBF and CBoI
- Managed an 11-person team spanning middleware, cloud, DevOps and application security
- Owned Azure administration, migration strategy, performance tuning and platform security
- Introduced microservices on OpenShift and Kubernetes across delivery teams
- Built DevSecOps pipelines on Jenkins in master and master–slave topologies
- Designed and ran disaster recovery for on-premises and Azure environments
Senior Analyst
Mashreq Global Services
Apr 2019 – Oct 2019
- Maintained Appzillon applications across JavaScript, Java and Oracle
- Managed WebLogic and Oracle integration for core banking workloads
- Supported RM Mobility for bank staff
Technology Consultant
DXC Technologies
Jul 2018 – Apr 2019
- Managed the IPPB platform on JBoss, WebLogic and Linux
- Ran system performance testing with JMeter and tuned the resulting bottlenecks
- Led the PGB project across Oracle, JavaScript, Finale and iReport
Technical Representative
Saggezza India
Apr 2017 – Mar 2018
- Finacle support and day-to-day technical operations
- Designed, tested and maintained banking applications
- Troubleshot, deployed and monitored software releases
Assistant Professor
KMCT College of Engineering
Sep 2014 – Nov 2015
- Taught computer science and mentored final-year projects
- Drove industry collaboration and student placements
- Produced documentation and reference code in JavaScript, Java and Oracle
DB Admin & Programmer
Quadra Software Systems
Dec 2011 – Aug 2012
- ASP.NET application development alongside database administration
- Delivered the NEON construction ERP project
- Unit and integration testing to harden release reliability
M.Tech — Computer Science
KMCT College of Engineering, Calicut University
Jan 2014
- Postgraduate specialisation in systems and software engineering
B.E. — Computer Science
Dr. Pauls Engineering College, Anna University
Jan 2011
- Foundations in computer science and engineering
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